Thread: Downloading new maps to 810
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2008-01-22 , 11:07
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Originally Posted by caseyd View Post
Hi there,

Over the past day I have tried to download a new map to my new 810 several times. The N810 was reflashed to the latest OS.

I've deleted all user guides other than English, all Images, Music, and removed all the maps but US West. ( it wouldn't allow me to delete the last map.)

The download from w/in Maps takes an amazing amount of time only to result in a failure message. As in 3 or 4 hours. Bluetooth is off, GSP acquisitin is off...
I just downloaded the maps just fine. Took about 5 minutes or so for the Canada/Alaska map.

It is quite possible that you got bitten by the internal flash memory corruption bug present in the earlier version of OS2008. I was having similar very strange effects due to that memory being intermittently read-only. If you find that with the file manager, you can't move files on and off the internal 2G memory, you might have to reformat the partition.

You can do this by plugging the N810 into your desktop via the USB cable and formatting the drive using the desktop as a FAT32 partition. You should be able to get most of your info off the card first though. I found that only a few files where corrupted beyond retrieveability. You will also have to reboot your N810 after as I found there was some ghost files left on the 2G partition due to the way the file manager caches its file listings.